Pat Rushin

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Pat Rushin
Born1953 (age 70–71)
NationalityAmerican
Education
Occupation(s)Professor, screenwriter
Employer University of Central Florida

Pat Rushin (born 1953) is an American screenwriter and academic.

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He is a creative writing professor at the University of Central Florida [1] where he has served as the editor of The Florida Review . [2]

Rushin's novella, The Call, inspired the screenplay [3] he wrote for The Zero Theorem , directed by Terry Gilliam. [4] [5] [6]

Career

Rushin attended the University of Dayton where he received a bachelor of arts degree in English in 1976. He later attended Ohio State University where he obtained a masters degree in English in 1979. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1982 with a masters degree in creative writing and fiction. [2] [7]

In 1991, Rushin's book of short stories, Puzzling Through the News, was published by Galileo Press. The short film No Ordinary Sun (2004) was based on his short story "Speed of Light". [3]

The original script for Rushin's first screenplay was written in 1999 and inspired by the film The Call. [8] [9] [10] He submitted it to Project Greenlight , a television series produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck; [3] the science-fiction film, directed by Terry Gilliam, was released in 2013. [10]

In 2015, Rushin's novella The Call: A Virtual Parable was published by Burrow Press. [11] His writing has also been included in literary magazines including the Indiana Review , [12] the North American Review [13] and the American Literary Review . [14]

Bibliography

Filmography

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  1. ↑ Leah Schnelback (September 19, 2014). "Terry Gilliam Grabs Life by the Lapels and Demands Answers in The Zero Theorem". TOR. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Nancy Pate (March 23, 1986). "The Florida Review Committed to Quality". The Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Inventing The Zero Theorem". Dreams. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  4. ↑ A. O. Scott (September 18, 2014). "Work, Love and Therapy, in So Many Bytes". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ Ty Burr (October 9, 2014). "Gilliam rehash 'The Zero Theorem' still adds up to something". The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  6. ↑ Philippa Hawker (May 14, 2014). "The Zero Theorem review: Bleak vision nothing to look forward to". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Pat Rushin, M.A." University of Central Florida. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  8. ↑ Chris Knight (August 1, 2014). "The Zero Theorem, reviewed: Life, the universe and nothing — in the style of Terry Gilliam". National Post. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  9. ↑ David Ehrlich (September 24, 2014). "Terry Gilliam has no use for happy endings". Dissolve. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  10. 1 2 Tod Caviness (April 17, 2015). "Screenwriters dish on Terry Gilliam, Ken Russell at Enzian panel". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  11. ↑ Jared Smith (March 18, 2015). "Fundament(al): A Review of Pat Rushin's The Call, A Virtual Parable". Atticus Review. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  12. ↑ Robert Shapard, James Thomas (1986). Sudden Fiction: American Short-short Stories. Gibbs Smith.
  13. ↑ Pat Rushin (September 1984). "Making it Work". The North American Review.
  14. ↑ "Contributors". The American Literary Review. Retrieved March 24, 2016.

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